OPINION_ Holman Jenkins: California wildfires – Can 40 million suffer from third-world blackouts without voter revolt?

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Holman Jenkins: California wildfires – Can 40 million suffer from third-world blackouts without voter revolt?

OPINION - By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. | The Wall Street Journal


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California may well be entering a pre-revolutionary situation as the Marxists would call it. Unlike the rolling blackouts of 19 years ago, today’s outages cannot be stopped with a simple act of regulatory courage, which then consisted simply of guaranteeing that suppliers would get paid for power they supplied under long-term contracts.


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Back then, a feckless governor dithered. Over 11 months, residents suffered blackouts that in their totality are already exceeded by just one of the intentional outages called in recent weeks to protect utilities from wildfire liabilities.


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This week a homeowner told the Los Angeles Times: “They shut off the power and we still had a fire. I don’t understand it.” That’s because less than 10% of fires are caused by power lines. It’s impossible even to know if the intentional outages are doing more harm than good, though the question at least was broached in a state Senate hearing this year. Utilities make the decision. They are understandably focused on minimizing their own financial liability rather than weighing the trade-offs that outages impose on the public.

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It’s hard to see how 40 million people can go overnight from First World electric reliability to Third World electric reliability without a voter revolt.

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